达格巴尼语名词后缀的形态和句法功能

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Fusheini Hudu, A. Iddrisu
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摘要 达格巴尼语(加纳北部的一种古尔/马比亚语言)及相关语言的名词和形容词的一个决定性形态特征是后缀的存在,这些后缀不仅可以标记数量(单数或复数),还可以作为名词分类的基础。典型的常规名词或形容词(如 bi-a "一个孩子")由一个提供词义的词根(bi-)和一个表示名词单数的后缀(-a)组成。在复数形式中,该后缀被另一个表示复数的后缀取代:(bi-hi)。在本文中,我们将说明虽然这种广义的描述已被普遍接受,但它比以往研究中的假设要弱得多,而且存在许多不一致之处。我们的主要目标是对名词后缀的形态和句法功能进行更广泛的分析。我们的研究表明,这些后缀主要是为了把词性词投射为名词和形容词,因此应被称为名词后缀,用于对固有名词进行屈折,并从动词派生出名词和形容词。名词后缀对于区分不同的复合名词和名词短语也至关重要。本文主要是描述性的,没有假设具体的理论方法。
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The morphological and syntactic functions of Dagbani nominal suffixes
Abstract One of the defining morphological properties of nouns and adjectives of Dagbani (a Gur/Mabia language of northern Ghana) and related languages is the presence of suffixes that mark number (singular or plural) as well as serve as the basis for noun classification. The typical regular noun or adjective (e.g. bi-a ‘a child’) consists of a bound root (bi-) providing the lexical meaning, and a suffix (-a) which indicates the singular number of the noun. In plural form, the suffix is replaced by a different one that marks plurality: (bi-hi). In this paper, we show that while this broad description is generally accepted, it is much weaker than assumed in previous studies, with many inconsistencies. As our main goal, we offer a much broader analysis of the morphological and syntactic functions of the nominal suffixes. We show that these suffixes are primarily there to project lexical words as nouns and adjectives and should be referred to as nominal suffixes used to inflect inherent nouns and derive nouns and adjectives from verbs. The nominal suffixes are also crucial to distinguishing between different compound nouns and noun phrases. The paper is largely descriptive, with no specific theoretical approach assumed.
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Topics in Linguistics
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